I used to debate in the newsgroups, alt.Christianity, alt.atheism, alt.satanism. Then came MSN Groups, then, came internet forums, and now comes my own forum. I have been doing this since 1994. I have been banned from so many groups I can’t count them all.

So, I’m starting a forum that I can’t be banned from. I invite you to check out “A Literary Experience.”

I was always banned by moderators. You see how I am here. In smaller forums, if I post, I shut the forum down; no one does anything except respond to my post and to my responses back. I have always had this "gravitas" in forums.

I'll be banned from this forum soon, as well. But look at my posts (views and replies), I'm not hated.

Besides, no one hates me. If they do they're the one's who are screwed up, not me. I don't hate the people in here. My worst enemy, Mark Fulton, if I were to e-mail him, I'd be polite as hell. I don't even "really" dislike him. If I were to meet him in a pub, I'd be thrilled. Shit, I'd let him do all the talking!

I can fight with someone and not hate them. In fact, a good fight earns them my respect.

Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy in the making. You are so far from being banned. You're projecting your past experiences in other places on the recent events here with other members. Their banning had nor has nothing to do with you.

Well, I'll keep posting. We'll see how it goes. But I want to know more about what happened with Stark Raving. Fine, if he didn't want to be admin anymore and has now just assumed a sock puppet identity. I can hang with that. But I think it's something else. One doesn't just quit unless they died or something.

If so, what would you do to a user who acted in a similar way on your forum (similar manner, but of course taking the opposite views and beliefs in their posts). What approach would you take with them now that you have admin powers?

If so, what would you do to a user who acted in a similar way on your forum (similar manner, but of course taking the opposite views and beliefs in their posts). What approach would you take with them now that you have admin powers?

I have some rules. I go by them and that's it. Otherwise a person can say anything they want to say.

(01-01-2013 04:19 AM)Egor Wrote: I have some rules. I go by them and that's it. Otherwise a person can say anything they want to say.

The "automatic ban" rules are actually pretty good. I think we should implement some of them on here (ex. "Attempts to solicit private information from members. What they want you to know will be on their profile.").